Chapter 352: The Fake Emperor, a Fight to the Bitter End
When the gates of Juyong Pass were wide open, the rebels found that Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian, wearing golden armor, led a team of Jinwu Guards to rush out of the pass and headed straight for the Jiapigou battlefield. They immediately reported to General Liu Ziyu.
At first, Liu Ziyu didn't care. He thought that Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian couldn't bear to watch the destruction of the Tang Dynasty Iron Pagoda, and wanted to use his own bravery to tear a hole in the layers of encirclement of the anti-rebel army and support the Tang Dynasty's heavy cavalry Iron Pagoda to break out!
But gradually, when the rebels suddenly discovered that the imperial troops pouring out of Juyong Pass, in addition to the hundreds of Jinwu Guards led by Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian, there were also a steady stream of Tang Dynasty soldiers wearing Mingguang armor and holding swords, spears, and halberds, who rushed out of Juyong Pass or rode chariots and headed straight for the Jiapigou battlefield.
It was not until this time that the rebel generals realized that things were not that simple. Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian personally rode out of Juyong Pass and headed for the Jiapigou battlefield. He was not here to support the Tang Dynasty's heavy cavalry and the Iron Buddha to break out, but to surround and annihilate the Youyun Rebellion Army!
"Great, great general, the imperial army is still rushing out of Juyong Pass;"
At this time, Li Meng, the deputy general of Youyun Anti-Rebellion Army, hurried to the side of General Liu Ziyu who had just withdrawn from the fierce battle with Zhao Zilong, and said in a trembling voice: "According to my estimation, the imperial army that just rushed out of Juyong Pass is no less than 50,000;"
"Moreover, there are still countless imperial army troops rushing out of Juyong Pass, and they have begun to form a larger encirclement around our army, as if they want to surround our Anti-Rebellion Army!"
"Great general, what should our army do, please make a quick decision!"
"This, this is impossible!"
Liu Ziyu's face The muscles on his cheeks twitched uncontrollably, and he almost roared out in despair, saying: "How could so many imperial troops be hidden in that small Juyong Pass?"
"How could the scouts under my command not receive any news of the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of troops?"
"The majority of the imperial troops led by Duke of Jin Pang Xianchu have just arrived in Zhuozhou City, how could they reach Juyong Pass overnight?"
Liu Ziyu's almost crazy roar still could not change a cruel fact - that is, there are still fully armed elite imperial troops in the small Juyong Pass, just like a flood, pouring out of the gate and rushing to the Jiapigou battlefield where the battle was going on.
He couldn't figure out what went wrong, and he couldn't understand how Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian concealed the truth and got this army of at least hundreds of thousands of troops to ambush at Juyong Pass under the noses of hundreds of scouts and spies of the anti-rebel army.
However, Liu Ziyu was very clear about one thing.
That is, Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian had been hiding in Juyong Pass and had not sent out his troops. He was waiting for the main forces of his central army to appear on the battlefield before he was ready to rush out and eat up all the Youyun Anti-Rebellion Army!
I thought that this Jiapigou battlefield was a trap set by Liu Ziyu and the Youyun Anti-Rebellion Army for the imperial guards who came to suppress the rebellion, so that he could calmly perform a "mantis stalks the cicada, the oriole is behind" drama.
Who knew that who was the mantis, who was the oriole, and who was the cicada was finally revealed until now.
When he thought of this, Liu Ziyu couldn't help but howl to the sky on horseback: "Heaven wants to kill me, Liu Ziyu, and Heaven wants to kill my Youyun Anti-Rebellion Army!"
"Chen Huaian, you dog emperor, tell me how you managed to ambush 100,000 troops overnight. Could it be that you have the ability to turn beans into soldiers?"
"I am unwilling to accept this, I am unwilling to accept this--"
Dengdengdeng, dengdengdeng!
What answered Liu Ziyu was the sound of horse hooves that came from far away and got closer and closer, and finally made the whole earth tremble slightly, and the shouts of tens of thousands of imperial soldiers.
Finally, no more imperial soldiers came out of the small Juyongguan Pass.
However, at this moment, the imperial soldiers who had appeared on the periphery of the Jiapigou battlefield and surrounded the imperial imperial guards and Youyun Anti-Rebellion Army in the melee were probably at least 100,000.
The morale of his Youyun Anti-Rebellion Army also began to collapse at this moment.
"I am Chen Huaian, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty. You Youyun rebels, why don't you quickly put down your weapons and dismount to surrender!"
Suddenly, Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian, who was riding on horseback and charging in person, shouted loudly, like a thunderbolt from the blue sky.
Behind him, hundreds of Jinwu Guards roared in unison: "The Emperor Zhaowu of the Tang Dynasty is here. You Youyun rebels, why don't you quickly put down your weapons and dismount to surrender!"
"The Emperor Zhaowu of the Tang Dynasty is here. You Youyun rebels, why don't you quickly put down your weapons and dismount to surrender!"
Chen Huaian's shouting was amplified by the full-blooded roar of the Jinwu Guards by more than a thousand times. Even on the battlefield where the shouting and killing were deafening, it was still like a Buddhist sound that the soldiers of both sides in the melee could hear clearly and truly.
The next moment, an extremely strange scene appeared on the battlefield.
The Youyun rebel soldiers who were brandishing their swords and fighting hard with the imperial guards were suddenly frozen in place as if they were frozen by a spell, whether they were the commanders of the hundred or thousand households or the ordinary soldiers on the front line;
With puzzled eyes, they all looked at the golden figure symbolizing the unique founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty coming on horseback, and then turned back to look in the direction of the flag banner of Youyun's rebel commander;
The confused eyes of the soldiers seemed to be questioning their own general Liu Ziyu, the general. Is this what the general said before going out to the expedition to raise troops to appease the enemy in order to clear the emperor's side?
Isn’t it true that the emperor has treacherous ministers around him? Isn’t it true that we Youyun’s rebel army is raising troops to appease the people in order to help the country and the country of the Tang Dynasty?
Why, now we have become the Youyun rebels that Emperor Zhaowu called us?
How can we fight this battle? Should we still fight it?
The one who came on horseback is the current Holy One!
Buzz——
Seeing this scene, Liu Ziyu's head exploded with a buzz.
Looking at the reactions of the grassroots soldiers on the battlefield, Liu Ziyu and the hard-core confidants under his command knew that this battle was unwinnable and the morale of the soldiers had been lost.
"The soldiers of Youyun's rebellion——"
Suddenly, Lieutenant General Li Meng, who was the first to react, turned his head and shouted sternly: "The man in the enemy's golden armor is the fake current Holy Lord;"
"All officers and soldiers must not believe the slanderous words of this fake emperor. Follow me and kill the fake emperor!"
"Kill--"
The next moment, Liu Ziyu also reacted and hurriedly ordered to his soldiers: "Come here, shout in unison and repeat the general's order!"
"Soldiers, this man is a fake emperor. Everyone can find him and kill him. Kill him!"
Immediately, hundreds of Liu Ziyu's soldiers roared at the top of their lungs: "The general has an order. This man is a fake emperor. Everyone can kill him. Kill him!"
It is not difficult to see that the desperate Liu Ziyu and the backbones of the rebels are planning to fight to the death, and the fish will die and the net will be broken!